Condition Properties

Category

Condition Property

Description

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Condition Type

Type of condition. The system populates this box when you create a condition and you cannot change it.

Description

Name of the condition.

Question

Question to ask when presenting a list of options in a multiple choice condition.

Behavior

Choices

Options available for selection in a multiple choice condition. Click the ellipsis to open the Choice Collection Editor dialog box and specify the options.

Data Type

Type of extra data or miscellaneous extra data. Valid values are:

• DateTime

• Numeric

• Text

Format

Data format to use for the numeric or currency condition. Valid values are:

• Currency

• None

• Percent

Data

Code

Code that identifies the extra data.

Column

Column in the Latitude database table from which to get data. You can specify the column name or provide a SQL statement to indicate the column.

Column name example: [master].[qlevel]

SQL statement example: CASE ISDATE([master].[qdate]) WHEN 1 THEN CAST ([master].qdate] AS DATETIME) ELSE NULL END

Joins

Joined: The system joins a key indexed column in the Latitude master database table to a column in another Latitude database table to get data.

Not Joined: The data is in a column in the Latitude master database table.

Click the ellipsis to open the JoinTable Collection Editor dialog box and specify the tables to join.

Line

Extra data line number from which to pull data. An extra data code can have up to five lines of data associated to it.

LookupExpression

Name of the Latitude database table or expression that yields the lookup values. The first column is the code value and the second column is the description.

Example: SELECT [code].[QName] FROM [qlevel] WHERE [code] BETWEEN "600" AND "799"

Select

SQL fragment used in the SQL statement SELECT clause.

SelectColumn

Expression used to display the results of the lookup.

Example: [SupportQueueItems].[QueueCode] + "-" +[SupportQueueLevel].[QName]

SelectSubquery

Subquery expression to display as a list of values when using the condition as a select column. The subquery must return the field to display with an alias of [value] and cannot use an ORDER BY clause or any other SQL not permitted with a subquery.

SQL

SQL fragment used in the SQL statement WHERE clause.

Subquery

Subquery expression that yields the related data values.

Title

Title of the miscellaneous extra data.